Where did the word “hello” come from? There are all kinds of ideas.
Some say it came from a French word “ho”. This greeting may have arrived at England during the Norman
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Conquest（诺曼征服）in the year 1066. “Ho” then changed slowly over the years and became today’s “hello”.
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Another story of this word says it came from the word “hallo”. People often used “hallo” in England in 1300s.
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200 years later, in William Shakespeare’s times, “hallo” had become “hello” and sailors and hunters used sounds like
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“horllo” and “hollo”.
A Brooklyn college professor reported what he had found the true story behind the word “hello”. He said the
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American inventor, Thomas Edison, created it. The professor said that at first Edison used the word “hullo” when
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working on his sound recording machine, later, when Edison became interesting in the telephone, he changed the
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word. The professor also offered evidence for his idea. He found a letter written by Thomas in 1877 to a
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businessman in the city Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Pittsburgh was about to get a telephone system. In the letter, Edison suggested to use the word “hello”.
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India has 22 important languages, Hindi（印地语）, the official language of India, has more than 500 million
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speakers, and many people don’t speak the language at all.
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Sanskrit（梵语）is one of the ancient languages. Some of the written stories in Sanskrit are more 5,000 years
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old. But Sanskrit is almost a death language as few people actually speak it today-there are only around 200
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people who can speak Sanskrit well.
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These days, English is very widely spoken, especial in government and education, and it is sometimes called
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the working language of India. Although people have many different mother tongues, English is often the second
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language there.
But English is no the leading language in every aspect of Indian life. In homes across the country,
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hundred of very old dialects（方言）are being passed on from generation to generation. Outside the home, films
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are being produced, and newspapers and books are being written in all the important languages, and over 50
languages taught in schools.
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I've had many dreams since I was a child. Now my dream is to opens a cafe. Though it may seem simple, it required a lot of ideas and efforts. What I want is not just an ordinarily cafe but a very special one. I want my cafe have a special theme such as like "Tang Dynasty". In the cafe, customers will enjoy yourselves in the historical environment what is created for them. If I succeed in manage one, I will open more. I wish to have a chain of cafes in many different city. Each of my cafes will have a different theme and a uncommon style.
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